CAMBRIDGE.- Striking paintings by Sir Sidney Nolan are being shown at a new exhibition in Cambridge. The special exhibition at the Polar Museum at the Scott Polar Research Institute runs from 30 September to 18 December 2010. Only a few of Nolan’s Antarctic works remain in Britain. They are part of a series painted in 1964 after Nolan visited the Antarctic as a guest of the US Navy during Operation ‘Deep Freeze’. The majority of the series is held in museums and galleries worldwide. With the support of the Sidney Nolan Trust and the Australian High Commission, the Polar Museum is delighted to present a selection from the small number of Nolan’s Antarctic works which remain in Britain. At the Adelaide festival in 1962, Nolan’s friend Alan Moorehead, the Australian journalist and author, suggested a trip to the Antarctic. Moorehead, a freelance journalist for The New Yorker, then arranged for them to tou